LATOURELLE FALLS

So yesterday we determined to again escape the heat (Saturday we went to the river but I forgot the camera!) and headed up the old historic highway to Latourelle Falls, a whopping 18 miles away from home. This was one of our stops at a sceneic lookout above the Columbia river on the way.

And this is the tree I spent most of the afternoon drowsing under! :)

Latourelle Falls... one of them anyway, there's at least 2 others.

This isn't actually a tombstone, it's just a cool memorial at the park we spent the day at.

Latourelle "fixer upper!"

We ended off the day with a brief stop at Mutonomah Falls on the way home. This is just the lower portion of the falls. Pretty gorgeous, eh?

Bella LOVES the water!

Bella after her busy weekend.

Wandering About

MY NEW HOME

Hi gang! It occurred to me that if I want to seduce as many of you as possible into moving out here to Oregon it might help to show you what you're missing! LOL OK, for you foolish diehards, this is just so you can see what I've been up to. Now that I've been here a year (a whole YEAR!) I'm finally starting to explore my new home. So here's what some of it looks like!As usual, Bella will be featured heavily! :) Above is a shot of Mt. Hood as we were headed towards it last weekend.

So here we are in the woods up on Mt. Hood and do you think Bella could be content with the sticks all around that were just lying on the ground? Oh nooooooo!

"If I can just get a better grip!"

"Perhaps I'll just wrestle it to the ground."

"Or maybe a flying tackle!"

The man!

"The stick is mine!"

Demon dog

I love all the water here!

A bit of a drop.

On the road towards Mt. Hood.

These next pictures are from the Columbia Gorge area, also very near where I live.

Just us dorks.

This was me trying to take a pic of the inside of the building above, which was sadly closed for renovations at the time.

The Columbia River. Is that gorgeous or what?

So, in conclusion... I miss you guys and I want you all to come here!!!